bush nicolle wallace and economic adviser steve ratner. >> very rested. he's full on 100% of his banker suit. your attitude, i guess, this is the first day of the year. >> dress for success. >> show them your pocket watch. >> monicle. >> in washington we have david ignatius. also with us, good morning, pulitzer prize columnist and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. >> this is really the first day -- >> of the rest of our lives. >> for the rest of our lives. this is traditional opening of campaign season. >> it is. so now what you see is what you get with these candidates. we have a lot to get to this morning. i'm just going to start with what trump is leading with trying to make it look like hillary clinton is sick or something because she coughed. just want to know where tim kaine was when he was clapping behind her for two minutes like this. if i had a coughing fit on the air, what would you do? probably take over and help out. tim kaine, come on. what are you doing? >> probably -- >> step up, take a mike, get a drink of water. >> he's a little aw

still whether vested talk about the election is steve ratner.tant and has become very emotional in the election. what are the candidates's position? >> they are essentially the same. they say we should not do tpp. david: the transpacific partnership. it has been negotiated over the last few years between 12 countries.ny -- it was to tie us closer politically to the countries that surround china. donald trump position as he will negotiate good trade deals and if he can't, he will put massive tariffs on imports from the countries that don't respect him. the hillary clinton position is she is in favor of fair trade deals that we don't know what that means. i think the reason we are in this place on trade is that people who got these trade agreements past starting with nafta failed to recognize the fact that there were going to be winners and losers. they said trade is good for a so let's do more. that younot realize and i are winners, our cars and close are cheaper and everything we buy is cheaper but the people who used to make those in the united

david: investors are on the knife's edge, as steve ratner says.ll -- we had the big dip as well. jon: 26 minute into the session -- we are higher by one point 5%. that does it for "bloomberg ," as we wrap up the trading weekend head toward the close. -- week and had toward the close. bloomberg markets continues. ♪ : it is 10:00 a.m. in new york, three cup p.m. in london, -- 3:00 p.m. in london. ejra: i'm in for mark barton. welcome to bloomberg markets. funny: we going to -- bonnie: we're 20 take you from new york to london. breaking economic data in the u.s.. let's go to the markets desk where julie hyman has the latest. julie: another reading on consumer confidence. the last one we got came in better than estimate. this one in that trend -- the university of michigan sentiment for september -- the final .eading coming in at 91.2 90 is what analysts were anticipating pick current conditions rising to 104.2. the relatively high level therefore sentiment. this is the first entries in this particular meeting of consumer sentiment in four months